Visual Studio 2003 .Net / C#
I have a 2 page Tab Control for users to add  a Job in my application.  The
first page is for them to choose which type of Job they would like.  The type
of Job determines what information is asked for on the second page, and so

I have a TabControl with a lot of tabs in it.  Since it is sometimes
difficult to tell which tab is currently active (all the pages have
the same layout) I want to be able to highlight which tab is currently
active.

I would like to be able to use the mouse wheel button in my windows
application to scroll my control data.
The weel  gets two function, when you rotate it and whne you press it.
How to handle that 2 function and tell to my control to scroll up or down

We want to search our file system regularly for certain file types and
possibly for text contained in the files.
We essentially need a tool that provides the primary functionality of the
Window Search facility that can be run in batch from a "Scheduled Task".  We

This is driving me crazy.
I finally got the Remoting sample chat application working almost.
When I run the chat client in VS.NET it goes into an endless loop --
that's because I assume that there is now way for me to interface to a

I've created a windows forms appliation that gets its data from a sql database.
I want to create an app.config file for this application so that in the
event that the server name changes, they won't have to recompile to connect,
but rather change the setting in the app.config file ...

How do i tell if a string obeys a regular expression?
i thought i knew but then i tried to verify that a string was a certain
length...
   Regex.IsMatch("1234", @"\w{1,3}")

I have a vb.net class file that I would like to have run as a scheduled job
from Windows Scheduler.  Can a class file be converted to a .exe file so it
can be scheduled?  The class file needs information from web.config, so its
not practical to make the class file its own project ...

anyone have any secrets or pearls about vb.net you want to share
I was asked by my company to begin teach an introductory VB.Net course
2 day seminar. I had been teaching an sql server 2000 seminar.
The brochure they send out for the class creates a high expectation (those

faced the following problem.. (NET 1.1)
Steps to reproduce -
1.Create New Windows Forms Application
2. Add StatusBar and set ShowPanels = True

I am developing a winforms project in vb.net.  I have several forms that have
a number of controls, grids, etc.  When I load these as MDI child forms, they
load slowly AND they paint/repaint on the screen, and it makes a sloppy
presentation.  I am unhappy with it, and obviously ...

I'm setting up a Win Server 2003 for remote debugging.
From this page, I see that I need to set two registry keys on the server:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsdebug/html/vc
tskinstallingremotedebugmonitor.asp
This key already exists:

Configuring Win Server 2003 SP1 for remote debugging.
The steps listed here for configuring DCOM permissions on the web server
don't coincide with dcomcnfg on Win Server 2003 SP1:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default ...

This is probably an easy question but i apparently can't find the right
Google key words
i am passed a string and the name of the data type i'm hoping that string is
(technically, i'm passed a System.TypeCode). My job is to verify that the

What installer/deployment tool are you all using?
I've been struggeling with the built-in tools since .NET came out, but after
too many hits in the head and I'm running out of helmets. See related thread.
Maybe it's down to the (lack of) docuementation, I don't know. I've ask a